Does Google even have a responsibility to link to Geico if the name 'Geico' is typed in? As a private company, shouldn't they be able to show whatever result they want?
Why not just adopt the British system and charge the losing party for the winning party's lawyer bills? If you know you're guilty, you won't drag it out and increase what you'll have to pay, and if you're truly in the right then you will be able to fight it through because your lawyer will be more willing to fight it out if it is very likely his work will be covered by the other party if you're unable. Seems to me that it makes more system to actually fix the dynamics of the system than to apply some bandage that may work for awhile, but probably won't.
You're absolutely right. I had two internships a few years back. One was great, and the other was the type of experience you're talking about. I think you learn more in smaller companies in general. Also, maybe it's my view, but financial companies tend to produce programmers who aren't quite as into it as in other fields. The best advice I can give you is to try something else. In the larger companies it is very easy to be stuck in a position where things are slow, people are on vacation or the pace of projects is maddeningly slow.
There's nothing moral about failing to fulfill a contract. Evidently many of these players believe they will play well enough to garner some leverage to renegotiate as it's so common. However, comparing this situation to a free market dynamic isn't really valid nor is it something that the parent poster should have been whining about.
You are right about one thing, that direct employment, employment at-will and the regular sports contracts are two totally different things. In the case of football 'contracts', players can be released at any time and the player will not receive any additional money. Also, when a player comes into the league, the length of a contract is not always open to discussion. You may have to take a 4+ year contract. You are not free to go to another team and get a contract; you wait the entire course of the year and then are placed back into a draft where you can only deal yet again with one team. I'm sorry, but with the average working career of an nfl player under 4 years, I support whatever strategies they have to use in the system to get as much as they can from the very profitable teams. That's the best part of a free market in my estimation.
There is more to it than two people agreeing to do something for x dollars. There may be ambiguously worded parts to the contract or parts of the contract may not be enforceable. The complaint about whiny athletes just sounds like sour grapes to me from people who never played sports. In football at least the grounds for a 'contract' are pretty flimsy. The agreement simply states that a team will pay a player this much to play for as long as the team wants to keep the player. If a player underperforms, he's gone and without any kind of additional compensation. However, if that player outperforms the contract, he doesn't have a right to release himself from it to get a better one. What I'm trying to say is sometimes the environment a contract is signed in will be the reason that a contract is always signed under durress. In the artist example, there will always be someone who will sign it standing behind you, so you sign it and hope it works out even if you start behind the eight ball.
It's too bad he didn't have as high quality representation as Microsoft or he could have just given them 7 million worth of loan consolidation advice and green tea.
I already speak some French and Spanish and i'd willingly learn another one. That's really not the problem. I'm looking for listings and an explanation of how not to run afoul of stuff like work visas etc.
Okay, so let's asked the bigger question. Why send people up there in the first place? Why not create a smaller, cheaper spaceship that might actually reach it's destination without going over budget? I'm not critisizing the astronauts, but rather the mindless bureaucracy that has decided that even though unmanned ships could be built at a small fraction of the price, they refuse to consider it as an alternative.
I also work in finance, and I feel I should disagree with you here. Very rarely do traders in the companies I have worked for have more than a cursory knowledge of the math behind securities they buy and sell. They can usually give you the definition of a security from the series 7 and 63 tests, but ask them to apply most of the math and they are out of their element. They constantly expect programs to tell them things they should realize on their own. No matter how good the tools are you give them to evaluate the financial instruments, you wind up explaining stuff like standard deviation to them so they understand where those numbers really come from. They also tend to be the type of people who make so much money that they laugh off the fact they can't do it and disregard the underlying mathematics .
So you only want to know when they have a rousing success? In a country where the bureaucracy wastes so much money on manned space exploration, I think this is big news. One of the jobs of newspapers and reporters is to expose mismanagement and it seems that NASA is ripe for articles. I want to know how many times they screw up because trying to put manned space crafts into orbit is a crazy waste of money. The same experiments can in 99% of the cases be done by robots and a) not endanger lives and b) save money. I don't see why we still support this relic.
Why even put up with all this stupidity? Base whatever servers somewhere with more lax laws (or none) and cache whatever you want. The only way to change people's thinking in this country is when they wake up one day and all kinds of incredibly creative, useful projects are all foreign. Why would anyone even think about basing some kind of lawsuit vulnerable project in the United States. It's like opening a day care center across from Neverland Ranch.
You can buy the article to raise money for them. If not, they have yet another strategy. They are planning the next four words for Alex:
Golden
Palace
Dot
Com
Just last week I asked a someone I work with "Why don't we just put a parameter and use one script instead of 3?" He laughed and said "I think it's better this way." Guess I won't have to worry about any downsizing here. I'll just have to memorize which of the scripts affects which table. It's pretty idiotic, but hey, it's corporate America.
Once the Christian Coalition has extended copyright to 2000 years + life of author, they will surely be on the same side as the RIAA. Hide your illegitimate copies of the bible.
The best advice you can ever get is to listen attently and if flattery is appropriate, flatter them in a way they haven't heard before. For example, a beautiful girl probably hasn't heard compliments about how smart, or knowledgeable about literature she is. People are predisposed to accept flattery even if you stretch it a bit. Also, nothing beats smiling and looking someone in the eyes.
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'But the new bill will make it illegal to combine words like "games", "medals", "gold", "2012", "sponsor" or "summer" in any form of advertising.'
In a related move, Gold Medal brand flower has already received a cease and desist letter.
Does Google even have a responsibility to link to Geico if the name 'Geico' is typed in? As a private company, shouldn't they be able to show whatever result they want?
Why not just adopt the British system and charge the losing party for the winning party's lawyer bills? If you know you're guilty, you won't drag it out and increase what you'll have to pay, and if you're truly in the right then you will be able to fight it through because your lawyer will be more willing to fight it out if it is very likely his work will be covered by the other party if you're unable. Seems to me that it makes more system to actually fix the dynamics of the system than to apply some bandage that may work for awhile, but probably won't.
You're absolutely right. I had two internships a few years back. One was great, and the other was the type of experience you're talking about. I think you learn more in smaller companies in general. Also, maybe it's my view, but financial companies tend to produce programmers who aren't quite as into it as in other fields. The best advice I can give you is to try something else. In the larger companies it is very easy to be stuck in a position where things are slow, people are on vacation or the pace of projects is maddeningly slow.
There's nothing moral about failing to fulfill a contract. Evidently many of these players believe they will play well enough to garner some leverage to renegotiate as it's so common. However, comparing this situation to a free market dynamic isn't really valid nor is it something that the parent poster should have been whining about.
You are right about one thing, that direct employment, employment at-will and the regular sports contracts are two totally different things. In the case of football 'contracts', players can be released at any time and the player will not receive any additional money. Also, when a player comes into the league, the length of a contract is not always open to discussion. You may have to take a 4+ year contract. You are not free to go to another team and get a contract; you wait the entire course of the year and then are placed back into a draft where you can only deal yet again with one team. I'm sorry, but with the average working career of an nfl player under 4 years, I support whatever strategies they have to use in the system to get as much as they can from the very profitable teams. That's the best part of a free market in my estimation.
There is more to it than two people agreeing to do something for x dollars. There may be ambiguously worded parts to the contract or parts of the contract may not be enforceable. The complaint about whiny athletes just sounds like sour grapes to me from people who never played sports. In football at least the grounds for a 'contract' are pretty flimsy. The agreement simply states that a team will pay a player this much to play for as long as the team wants to keep the player. If a player underperforms, he's gone and without any kind of additional compensation. However, if that player outperforms the contract, he doesn't have a right to release himself from it to get a better one. What I'm trying to say is sometimes the environment a contract is signed in will be the reason that a contract is always signed under durress. In the artist example, there will always be someone who will sign it standing behind you, so you sign it and hope it works out even if you start behind the eight ball.
It's too bad he didn't have as high quality representation as Microsoft or he could have just given them 7 million worth of loan consolidation advice and green tea.
I already speak some French and Spanish and i'd willingly learn another one. That's really not the problem. I'm looking for listings and an explanation of how not to run afoul of stuff like work visas etc.
Yet again I start thinking, "How can I find a job somewhere in Europe and get out of the States?". Anyone have any advice?
Ha, maybe porn movie producers can now ban their stars from visiting nude beaches as they're doing it while in their work uniforms.
I think we just lost soccer announcer appreciation day noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Okay, so let's asked the bigger question. Why send people up there in the first place? Why not create a smaller, cheaper spaceship that might actually reach it's destination without going over budget? I'm not critisizing the astronauts, but rather the mindless bureaucracy that has decided that even though unmanned ships could be built at a small fraction of the price, they refuse to consider it as an alternative.
I also work in finance, and I feel I should disagree with you here. Very rarely do traders in the companies I have worked for have more than a cursory knowledge of the math behind securities they buy and sell. They can usually give you the definition of a security from the series 7 and 63 tests, but ask them to apply most of the math and they are out of their element. They constantly expect programs to tell them things they should realize on their own. No matter how good the tools are you give them to evaluate the financial instruments, you wind up explaining stuff like standard deviation to them so they understand where those numbers really come from. They also tend to be the type of people who make so much money that they laugh off the fact they can't do it and disregard the underlying mathematics .
Who the hell gave Robert K. Graham a slashdot login. http://slate.msn.com/id/100331/
So you only want to know when they have a rousing success? In a country where the bureaucracy wastes so much money on manned space exploration, I think this is big news. One of the jobs of newspapers and reporters is to expose mismanagement and it seems that NASA is ripe for articles. I want to know how many times they screw up because trying to put manned space crafts into orbit is a crazy waste of money. The same experiments can in 99% of the cases be done by robots and a) not endanger lives and b) save money. I don't see why we still support this relic.
Why even put up with all this stupidity? Base whatever servers somewhere with more lax laws (or none) and cache whatever you want. The only way to change people's thinking in this country is when they wake up one day and all kinds of incredibly creative, useful projects are all foreign. Why would anyone even think about basing some kind of lawsuit vulnerable project in the United States. It's like opening a day care center across from Neverland Ranch.
You can buy the article to raise money for them. If not, they have yet another strategy. They are planning the next four words for Alex: Golden Palace Dot Com
And chicks dig programmers!
Just last week I asked a someone I work with "Why don't we just put a parameter and use one script instead of 3?" He laughed and said "I think it's better this way." Guess I won't have to worry about any downsizing here. I'll just have to memorize which of the scripts affects which table. It's pretty idiotic, but hey, it's corporate America.
Once the Christian Coalition has extended copyright to 2000 years + life of author, they will surely be on the same side as the RIAA. Hide your illegitimate copies of the bible.
I for one am not worried. Leave this up to the government and the database won't be clustered or indexed. Good luck getting anything useful out of it.
I beat my wife regularly you insensitive clod!
The best advice you can ever get is to listen attently and if flattery is appropriate, flatter them in a way they haven't heard before. For example, a beautiful girl probably hasn't heard compliments about how smart, or knowledgeable about literature she is. People are predisposed to accept flattery even if you stretch it a bit. Also, nothing beats smiling and looking someone in the eyes.